Hello i have been trying all day to get emails to work and I am totally lost.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could some one help me.
I have set up a domain which is my own name rickyspires.co.uk and i would like to have an email address for that domain like mail@ or info@.
I have set up the domain and that all works. My droplet is called spangler1 and my login name has changed from root to rickyspires.
This is what i have tried.
I have followed this tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdio_MMNqUE
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First login to the server rickyspires@spangler1:
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install postfix sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install postfix
myhostname = rickyspires.co.uk virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases mydestination = rickyspires.co.uk, spangler1, ricky-spiress-MacBook-Pro.local, localhost relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all
sudo service postfix restart
- try sending a test email
rickyspires@spangler1:/etc/postfix$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is ‘^]’. 220 rickyspires.co.uk ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
mail to: spangler1@rickyspires.co.uk
501 5.5.4 Syntax: MAIL FROM:<address>
mail from: rickyspires@rickyspires.co.uk (root@rickyspires.co.uk) 250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to: spangler1@rickyspires.co.uk 550 5.1.1 spangler1@rickyspires.co.uk: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table
!!! I GET AN ERROR HERE - the error wasnt there before ? But even when i didnt get the error at this point the emails would not send.
I get this… for example
From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Oct 21 07:17:27 2012 X-Original-To: rickyspires@ricky-spiress-MacBook-Pro.local Delivered-To: rickyspires@ricky-spiress-MacBook-Pro.local Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:17:27 +0100 (BST) From: MAILER-DAEMON@ricky-spiress-MacBook-Pro.local (Mail Delivery System) Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender To: rickyspires@ricky-spiress-MacBook-Pro.local Auto-Submitted: auto-replied MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary=“DDE412BC182.1350800247/ricky-spiress-MacBook-Pro.local” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
ANY IDEAS ?
Thanks Ricky
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Hello Roberto
I hope your well.
That’s really good advice.
Thank you so much
Rick
Hey Ricky,
I think you might not have configured your e-mail users yet (they’re different from your users on your box). Check out this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-a-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-mysql-and-spamassasin
On my droplet I used a different approach: I’m using a third-party provider for e-mail.
I found managing an e-mail server a bit of a hassle so I just use Gmail SMTP for sending e-mail from my box. Unfortunately Google Apps for business are no longer free. An option could be to use Outlook.com to host your e-mail, and then use the SMTP provided by them to send e-mail from your box. If you want to follow that approach you might start with these links
I hope that helps